[Avodah] Darkhei Limmud

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Moshe Y. Gluck <mgluck at gmail.com>
wrote to Areivim:
> What are the modern ways of learning Gemara?

To which RJJBaker <thanbo at gmail.com> added to the list on Mon, 19 May
2008 11:48:14 EDT:
> or, similarly, R' Wieder's textual-comparative method (use the parallel
> texts in Tosefta, Yerushalmi, Midrashim to clarify the gemara)

I don't think this is particularly modern. With the exception of
comparison of girsa'os, using new girsa'os found by Chokhmas Yisrael,
comparisons of the sort RJJB discusses were common. Until Brisker
Derekh crowded them out.

It's an element of the derekh halimmud proposed by RAEK in
<http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/kitveyet/beyt/16.doc>

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-micha

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